LSU Transition Advisory Team to Meet Tuesday, May 21

BATON ROUGE – LSU’s Transition Advisory Team will meet on Tuesday, May 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the LSU campus, and the meeting will be available by live streaming video at http://lsu.edu/tat.

The meeting, to take place in room 1409 of the LSU Business Education Complex, will be the seventh meeting of the full Transition Advisory Team.

William Jenkins, interim president of the LSU System and interim chancellor of LSU, will deliver opening comments before the team hears reports from each of the Transition Advisory Team Sub-Committees. The afternoon session will be highlighted by a discussion about LSU2015 and its mission and tenets, led by Christel Slaughter of SSA Consultants.

The Transition Advisory team, a 10-member panel tasked with providing information to the LSU Board of Supervisors to facilitate the reshaping of the LSU System, is meeting for the seventh time.

The team held its initial meeting on Jan. 8, an Immersion Workshop on Feb. 7, its third meeting on Feb. 19 and its fourth meeting with Ohio State University President Gordon Gee by Skype on March 5. The team met for the fifth time April 16 in a meeting that featured Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, and Stephen Moret, Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development, and then a partial group met on April 19 with representatives from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, or SACS.

Live streaming video of Transition Advisory Team, sub-committee and task force meetings are available at http://lsu.edu/tat. More information on LSU’s re-organization process, including descriptions and member lists of all Sub-Committees and Task Force Groups, can be found at www.lsu.edu/LSU2015. Also, visit LSU’s reorganization Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LSU2015transition.